LAWSON v. UMATILLA COUNTY

Nos. 96-36060, 97-35634.

139 F.3d 690 (1998)

Kevin J. LAWSON, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. UMATILLA COUNTY, Umatilla County Board of Commissioners; William Hansell, Commissioner; Emile Holeman, Commissioner; Glenn Youngman; Bruce Kinsch, Defendants-Appellants.

United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit.

Decided March 18, 1998.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Franz, Jr., Springfield, Oregon, for the defendants-appellants.

Paul B. Meadowbrook, Salem, Oregon, for the plaintiff-appellee.

Before: ALDISERT, PREGERSON and TROTT, Circuit Judges.


ALDISERT, Circuit Judge:

This appeal by Umatilla County, Oregon from an adverse judgment in an action brought under 42 U.S.C. § 1983 by Kevin Lawson, a discharged County employee, requires us to decide if Lawson possessed a constitutionally-protected property interest that prevented the County from terminating him without providing the procedural due process guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. We have jurisdiction under 28...

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